President and co-founder of the investment fund Hermitage Capital Management, and well-known critic of Vladimir Putin, Bill Browder is the grandson of Earl Browder, the former leader of the Communist Party of the United States, and son of the famous mathematician Felix Browder. He grew up in Chicago and studied economics at the University of Chicago. He earned an MBA from Stanford Business School in 1989, and among his classmates were Gary Kremen and Rich Kelley. In 1998, in what is speculated was an attempt to avoid paying taxes in the United States, Browder resigned his US citizenship and became a British citizen. Initially, Browder worked in the East European office of the Boston Consulting Group in London and managed the proprietary investments in Salomon Brothers. Later, in 1996, Browder and Edmond Safra founded Hermitage Capital Management with the purpose of investing an initial capital of twenty-five million dollars in Russia, which led them to accumulate a significant fortune. In February 2015, Browder published a story about his career, focusing on the years he spent in Russia and the Russian government's attacks on Hermitage Capital Management. Browder's continued crusade against corruption in Russia and the investigation into the death of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky are the main subject in Red Notice.